Enterra
Solutions, LLC, a leading-edge cognitive computing and Big Data
analytics and insights firm, announced today that it has hired six new
professionals to complement its world-class team of computer science,
artificial intelligence, applied mathematics, and digital marketing
professionals. These individuals, all of whom fill new positions, bring
a wide range of commercial and academic experience to Enterra Solutions,
which works with leading corporations and governmental agencies to
capitalize on the power and potential of Big Data through advanced
analytics and actionable insights.
“The ability to sense, think, act, and learn when analyzing huge volumes
of data is redefining the corporate value chain, from understanding
customers in new and richer ways, to developing and marketing products
and services, and executing the value chain at every level,” said
Stephen DeAngelis, CEO of Enterra. “Our core competency is to bring
together multidisciplinary skill sets and differentiated thought
processes to unravel and solve profound challenges through the
application of state-of-the-art cognitive computing and data-driven
analytics and insights. Our new employees strengthen an already strong
Enterra team, and we’re now better poised to address sophisticated
business challenges of leading companies and governmental agencies.”
The new members of the Enterra team include:
Joseph F. Lynch, Vice President of Engineering. A senior
information technology executive, Lynch brings 15 years of experience in
leading strategic, large-scale, C-level technology development and
management consulting engagements while serving as Vice President of IT
Applications at TRAC Intermodal and as Director of Professional Services
at Princeton Consultants. Lynch graduated magna cum laude from the
University of Pennsylvania having earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in
physics with a minor in mathematics. He has published articles in
Applied Physics Letters, Nature Science, and the journal Carbon.
Mara Tyler, Vice President of Digital Marketing. Tyler is a
talented online marketing professional from Silicon Valley with more
than a dozen years of experience working with technology companies,
consumer products brands, and ad networks. She has held senior online
marketing and e-commerce positions in which she was responsible for
optimizing revenue through digital channels. During her career, Tyler
has worked for leading brands such as Symantec, Creative Labs,
Key3Media, Lightspan, Ziff Davis, and Palm. Tyler attended the
University of California at Santa Cruz.
Douglas Foxvog, Senior Ontologist. A senior computer science and
cognitive computing technologist, Foxvog has spent the past 15 years
working on computer processing of meaning by systematizing knowledge
through ontologies and advancing the development of the Semantic Web. As
a visiting researcher at the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Foxvog worked on the Open Biological and Biomedical
Ontologies (OBO), Cell Line and Plant Ontologies; along with developing
ontologies for the Materials Genome Initiative. He began his knowledge
engineering career as a Senior Ontologist at Cycorp, where he developed
meta-class ontologies. Prior to Cycorp, he was a Member of the Technical
Staff at Bell Laboratories, the National Institutes of Health, the
Technology Research Centre of Finland, and the Hefei Polytechnic
University. Foxvog earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer
science and electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering
from Vanderbilt University.
Jan-Samuel (Sam) Wagner, Senior Associate. A former healthcare
consultant, Wagner has worked with pharmaceutical companies on health
economics and outcomes research studies and taught biostatistics and
epidemiology at Columbia University’s School of Public Health. He also
worked at Columbia’s School of Public Health as a research assistant in
the Department of Health Policy and Management, and as a research
assistant at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Wagner received a Bachelor
of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Minnesota and a
Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University. Sam is also the
co-author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and working papers on
health-related subjects.
Asa Adadey, Associate Software Engineer. Adadey has more than
half a decade of research experience in the fields of molecular biology,
genetics, transcription, RNA splicing, translation, gene regulation, and
cell differentiation. Prior to Enterra, Adadey worked as a research
assistant at the Burge Laboratory for the Computational Biology of Gene
Expression at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has held
internships at Stanford University; the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County; Harvard University; and the Walter Reed Army Institute
of Research. Adadey received a Master of Science degree from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in computational and systems
biology and a Bachelor of Science degree in bioinformatics and
computational biology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Chaka Benson, Lead Database Developer. Benson has more than 20
years of experience in large scale system administration, development,
and optimization of relational databases for pharmaceutical,
telecommunications, and software companies. Prior to joining Enterra,
Benson was a consultant at IDBS, where he provided technical leadership
to the global professional services team. Prior to IDBS, he worked at
Ansaris (formerly Locus Pharmaceuticals) as an informatics architect.
Earlier in his career, Benson held positions with GMAC Mortgage, Merck,
SmithKline Beecham, MCI, and Bell Atlantic. He studied management of
information systems at Drexel University.
About Enterra Solutions
Enterra Solutions®, LLC brings the promise and power of Big
Data analytics and insights to corporations, organizations and
governmental agencies through cognitive computing and analytical
insights. The firm’s Cognitive Reasoning Platform™ performs Big Data
semantic and computational analytics, producing insights that improve
decision-making and create efficiencies across complex systems in a wide
range of industries, including retail, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and
national security. For more information about Enterra Solutions, please
visit www.enterrasolutions.com.
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